Charleston, WV — United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Mike Stuart announced that 57-year-old David Lee Walls, of Logan County, West Virginia, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the U.S. 119 Task Force conducted the investigation. Walls admitted that he had possessed ten different firearms despite his status as a convicted felon. Walls faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced on October 11, 2019. Senior United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. presided over the hearing. Assistant United States Attorney L. Alexander Hamner is handling the prosecution.